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Almost Two Million Displaced in Iraq Print E-mail
Friday, 21 September 2007 18:02
ImageRed Crescent notes sudden jump in Iraqi displaced, UN says Iraqi refugee flow to rich nations doubles.

 
The number of Iraqis displaced in their own country because of rampant insecurity has reached almost two million following a sudden jump in August, Iraq's Red Crescent reported on Friday.


It said more than 280,000 families, or 1.9 million people, were displaced by the end of August, compared to 1.1 million people at the end of the previous month, according to the report.


The report gave no explanation for the massive jump in a single month, but said the figure had been on the rise ever since January.


Baghdad accounted for the lion's share of the increase, with 970,000 more people classified as displaced. Most of them, about 823,000 people, were from the mainly Shiite east bank of the Tigris river which runs across the city.

AMSI Net- Midlle East Online

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